We’re giving away 2,020 XRP (as a tribute to tomorrow’s Ripple Developer Conference at Money2020) to GitHub account holders who have at least one public code-writing activity before May 1, 2013, 00:00:00 UTC.

Accounts that have watched or starred the ripple-client, ripple-lib, or rippled repositories as of October 3, 2013, 21:15:00 UTC are eligible for 4,040 XRP.

Please note that these rules are subject to change without notice.

How Does It Work?

It’s very easy. By authenticating with GitHub, you’ll receive a giveaway code (or two if you qualify). Go here to begin.

Lastly, a note about privacy: While Ripple is by nature pseudonymous, we respect your right to determine the level of privacy you wish to ensure for yourself. Therefore, this giveaway has been constructed in such a way as to obscure the connection between your GitHub account and your Ripple address. We invite you to inspect the source of the giveaway client to see how this is done. That’s also why we recommend that you wait at least 24 hours between receiving your code and redeeming it. (But if you’re really anxious, you can redeem your code right away.)

Yes it works - no, I don't care if you think Ripple is a scam, please troll elsewhere.

Maybe you can also consider to send some of these free XRP to people who want to fund their accounts or to faucets. Even better would be to actually use them to develop awesome things. If you really do NOT want them at all, just enter a Bitcoin address in the Ripple client and send to that address, Ripple will then automatically trade the XRP for Bitcoin and they will be sent by Bitstamp to your address on the block chain.

If you intend to use Ripple ever again, please make sure to back up your secret key (= private key in Bitcoin) from your wallet to a secure location, there is NO WAY to recover your funds without it, just like loosing your Bitcoin wallet with your private keys inside.

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